I am currently doing NVQ L3 and my assessor is coming into school next week to observe me doing Circle Time with a group of Y4 children. I have never done (or even seen) a circle time before. I have got some ideas from a book lent to me, and from the internet but need more help. The topic will be about valuing oneself and understanding your own emotions. I want to talk about empathy and understanding and valuing others. I thought I'd start with recognising different emotions... 'I feel sad when...', 'I feel angry when...' etc. I've got a story to read them and they have to discuss how it will end. Any more help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I saw a teacher do this. She had a book with faces with different expressions on and the children had to guess the emotion. And, she asked the children to do their face and rest had to guess what emotion child was attempting. Was fun.

Thanks sscatfish - I'll throw that one in - sounds fun!

you could get them to use expression too, choose a child and give them a sentence to say and then give them a card with an emotion on, they have to say the sentence using that emotion and the others have to guess what emotion they are portraying.

Thanks. I've made a note of this idea also. I'll run all these by my CT this week, but any suggestions made are really helpful.
Thanks Summertime.

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What about hot-seating, one person is chosen to be the special one and others pay compliments. This can lead to how it feels when people say good things to you, just an idea hope this helps

As I will only be working with a small group, I do not want to single anyone out for special attention, it might make the others feel left out. I've come up with a similar idea though. All the children will be given a card with another child's name on (preferably someone they don't normally play with or get on well with), and they have to then say something nice or point out a good quality that person has. What do you think?

I have seen this done with a diff teacher too (say something nice). It was a whole class and the children began to run out of diff things to say. But you have a small group so should be ok.

I have used photographs of people showing different emotions.You can usually get them in magazines. I went on a course where we had to pick two and then speak about what you think the person is feeling.After you have spoken others could add there opinions.I have done this with children and it works well if you wanted to engineer it you could give out the pictures. Would someone let you have a practice run first.
You have a few good suggestions on this forum. Good Luck